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The following special events will take place at the First
Divine Science
Church in the coming months.
For information about other happenings, see News and
Sunday Services.
(all
events/activities at 1400 Williams St.. See below for more
detailed descriptions)
community
building discussions: Sunday, May 4th 12:30pm
(following 10:30am service, &
community lunch afterward)
as well as Thursday, May 14th 7:00 pm
yoga
(with loreli): *TAKING THREE WEEK BREAK FOR LORELI'S SCHOOL FINALS* resumes Tuesday, May
20th 7:30 pm
baking
class (with brian): May 7th 5:00 pm
yoga
(with levi and josh): May 7th 7:00 pm
patanjali's
yoga sutras (with jane): *TAKING FOUR WEEK BREAK* resumes Thursday, May
29th 5:30pm
dream
group (with katy): Thursday, May 8th 7:00 pm
a
night of one act plays (in the city): Fridays and Saturdays, May 2-24,
7:30pm
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WEDNESDAYS
(There is great dinner food served for a suggested donation of $3-5 after the
yoga and spiritual psychology classes are out Wed. PM!)
Baking Class: a free school denver class taught by Brian Shald that
will explore the practice of baking breads and other baked goods. The
class will prepare a meal that will be shared with other students once
classes get out that night at the Brooks Center for Spirituality.
YOGA CLASS Free School Denver WEDNESDAY
NIGHTS
7:00 - 8:00 pm
taught by Levi Noe:
exploring poses, breathing exercises, Sanskrit terms, and the philosophy of
yoga. "Yoga is the science of self awareness. Through body, mind,
spirit and everything else that is the stuff of you. The true self is
yoked through the yogic process."
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THURSDAY EVENINGS
Patanjali's
Yoga Sutras
Thursdays at
5:30 PM.
Taught by Jane Kopp, PhD.
The class is a spin-off
from last year's "Architecture
of Consciousness" and
will explore a translation of Patanjali's
Yoga Sutras, which has been called the foundation of yoga. Patanjali outlines
the way to transcend the ego/consciousness. The class will be using
"How to Know God": the Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali, a translation
and commentary by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood (Vedanta
Press). Copies available for $9 at the first class meeting.
Dream Group:
7-9 pm every other Thursday, with Katy Kurtz.
This group meets every two weeks to share and discuss several dreams had by
people in the group, following the six part procedure of dream work that Jeremy
Taylor sets out in his book "Where People Fly and Water Runs
Uphill". The group
"works" on a participant's dream from the perspective of it being
one's own dream, each person present
envisioning the dream in their own mind as the dreamer shares what they
remember of the dream. The group then offers insight or interpretation
of the dream using the first person "I" to talk about
"my" dream, rather than project upon or tell the original dreamer
what their dream was about. This way the speaker owns their own
projections. The group never tells anyone what their dream is about,
but only what it would be about if it were our own dream. Although the
first class is free, $10 is asked per session, $5 is willingly accepted, and
if someone can not afford to pay, they should not stay away for that reason
alone. The money all goes to operations of Brooks Center for
Spirituality itself.
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THURSDAY/SUNDAY COMMUNITY BUILDING DISCUSSIONS
(i.e. every other Thursday and most Sundays)
Since many folks cannot make it every other Thursday
night (alternating with Dream Group), there is a second meeting time for the
community building discussions which is Sunday at 12:30 (after the
10:30 am Sunday service and ensuing community lunch).
Important Spring Study and Discussion Groups on
Creating Community Begin
ALL MEMBERS OF THE
CHURCH AND ITS EXTENDED OUTREACH throughout metro-Denver are enthusiastically
invited to join this spring in an ongoing in-depth study and discussion group
on the art of creating authentic community. Group discussions will be based
on the book Creating Community Anywhere: Finding Support and
Connection in a Fragmented World by Carolyn R. Shaffer & Kristen
Anundsen (Tarcher/Perigee, 1993; Kids 4 Kids Press, 2005).
For authentic community, "holding harmony as an
ideal is not the problem," the authors say. "The danger lies in
ignoring the process that leads to harmony and that maintains it after it is
attained."
These writers have decades of experience with
building communities. Their book looks at virtually every detail of the
processes involved, from coming together, learning to communicate, making
decisions and governing, through weathering the challenges of growing, to
working with conflict and embracing the shadow. They even address how to
dissolve and part gracefully if the time comes.
The unique factors in a variety of settings is
explored—family and friend groups, workplaces, and neighborhoods, for
example, as well as shared residences, residential communities, assorted
retirement living arrangements, and even electronic communities. A visionary
closing chapter contemplates the planet as community.
"If your attempts at connecting with
others in the past have left you dissatisfied, you might be measuring them
against a faulty, outdated standard," the authors say. "Your
community [may] blame itself for failures, such as interpersonal conflicts,
that are not failures at all but essential parts of the process of community
building."
Well-known psychiatrist and author Scott Peck.M.D.
writes in the Foreword to this book, "The requirements of real
community—such as personal commitment, honesty, and
vulnerability—are so alien to our [. . ]. culture of rugged
individualism that it is utterly unclear whether the citizenry as a whole
will be willing to meet them. As a species, we may not choose survival. So if
you do choose to explore the 'less traveled road' of community, you will be
embarking on a true cultural adventure."
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IN THE CITY: a night of
one act plays
Fridays and Saturdays May 2-24
doors at 7:30pm. show at 8pm.
$15 at the door / $10 reservations (cash or checks)
Fur by
Karl Kopp
a man-wolf from a
traveling circus happens upon a beauty salon on East Colfax
Edgar by Frank A Oteri
a religious man meets a
woman of uncertain repute on the streets of Denver
Like Trains in the
Night by
Joel Eis
two writers cross paths
on a NYC subway
From the Lips of a
Strange Woman by
JD Mason
there is more than meets
the eye to one homeless woman on the streets of Atlanta
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